Bringing in Frank Miller to redo the goddamn Batman

Fixed that for ya.

See also Mueller's remarkable performance over at lwn.net.

> You, uh, do realise that the longer the half-life the _less_ radioactive something is?

That rule of thumb fails if said element happens to decay into yet another radioactive isotopes. Like, say, uranium...

More than half of STEM assistant professors in the US are foreign born (up from about one in ten, 40 years ago). Compare this to the general population of STEM workers, where only about 20 percent are foreign born. If we assume that professors are admitted to university faculties on the basis of sheer ability, this indicates that foreigners are actually *underrepresented* in the general H1B population.

Doesn't that depend on which revolutions he's inciting?

I believe the recent right wing view is that revolutions in countries where lots of brown people live are a bad thing, because the Mooslims will take control.

That's not how hash functions work.

There is no way this floating point thing is real.

It has to be real. Java lacks built-in support for complex numbers.

Wow, how original.

Ya I've never got all the Randroids out there.

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs. -- Kung Fu Monkey

> part from being spoken differently, they are written differently as well

No they aren't.

Their PM accidentally admitted, back in 2006, that they did have nuclear weapons.

Now Singapore is a relatively new and untested place for offshoring

This statement hasn't been true since the 1970s.

Your stupidity is showing. Singapore may be largely populated by ethnic Chinese, but it certainly isn't China.

I'd engage in a bit of reading comprehension before accusing others of stupidity. He was replying to aztektum's assertion that

It seems the countries they compare to Ireland such as China have a completely different lifestylet.

And one of the "countries they compare to Ireland" happens to be Singapore:

...a statement signed by senior execs at Microsoft, HP, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, and Intel points out that although Ireland's tax rate may be low in European terms, it is not when compared with locations such as Singapore, India and China.

We'll see. During the Asian economic crisis of the late 1990s, there was an inordinate amount of glee in the West over the plight of the original Tiger economies. Since then, they've bounced back even stronger than before, with GDP in South Korea and Singapore at roughly twice the level before the Asian crisis. And they've been almost unaffected by the current crisis.

All will hinge on how the Irish government handles the recovery. In the case of the Asian Tigers, referring to their economies as "right wing" is rather misleading; low corporate taxes notwithstanding, their governments actually play a pretty heavy role in managing the economy, and Keynesian programs (direct government spending) played a big part of their recovery.

> assange did a good thing starting wikileaks,

Assange did not start Wikileaks.